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Late actor Helen McCrory Supported Cornwall Family Through Cancer Tragedy

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Helen’s Big Heart

by Sam Beamish | Cornwall Live | May 13, 2021

A close friend of the late Helen McCrory has told how the star supported her family through her daughter’s illness and death. Fiona Nash said the actor would do “anything for anyone” and was a “very kind and generous person”.

Fiona’s daughter Torie Benson died 10 years ago at age 30 due to cervical cancer.

To mark the anniversary of her death and raise money for the charity that supported her, Fiona’s 18-year-old son Toby Benson ran from Land’s End to The Lizard and back on Tuesday (May 11).

So far he has raised £15,500 for Marie Curie and is being backed by McCrory’s husband, actor Damian Lewis.

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Peaky Blinders Tributes

‘There will never be another you’ — Dublin artist creates stunning mural in honour of Helen McCrory

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Aunt Polly Immortalized

by Eva Wall | extra.ie | April 26, 2021

A Dublin-based artist has created a stunning mural to Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory, who passed away earlier this month.

“McCrory plays her part with the ferocity of a pit bull, the heart of a lion and the grace of a swan."

Mural tribute to the late & great @HelenMcCrory_ an amazing actor on stage, screen and an amazing human in life. There will never be another you.

Rest in Power, Grand Dame pic.twitter.com/34ckupkA9V

— chels (@chelsearjacobs) April 26, 2021

On April 16, the sad news broke that Helen had died of cancer at the age of 52, sending fans, friends and industry colleagues alike into mourning.

Helen’s husband, British actor Damian Lewis, paid tribute to the mother of his two children, describing the actress as a ‘beautiful and mighty woman’ who had lived ‘fearlessly’.

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Last of the Haussmans Print Media Tributes

Stephen Beresford Remembers His Friend Helen McCrory

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Helen McCrory Was a Great Actor — and a Great Human. The Playwright Stephen Beresford Praises his Friend’s Restless, Curious Nature

by Stephen Beresford | The Times | April 22, 2021

*Kindred spirit: McCrory in Beresford’s play The Last of the Haussmans DONALD COOPER/ALAMY*

There was no possibility of my being interesting. I was too terrified. It was the first day of rehearsals for my first play, and it was happening at the National Theatre. I was about to walk into a room full of people I had long admired: Julie Walters, Howard Davies, Rory Kinnear, Nick Hytner — and, of course, Helen.

“Don’t get your hopes up,” she said, sliding her arm into mine as though we had known each other for 40 years. “I’m terrible at read-throughs.”

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Debbi Clark, CEO and Founder of Sir HvH Arts, Pens a Tribute to Helen McCrory

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Introducing the McCrory Award

by Debbi Clark | Sir HvH Arts Foundation | April 21, 2021

Source: HvH Arts Foundation

The shining light of my friend and hero Helen McCrory will live on forever in the work we do. We will be strong and try with all our might to smile today, but we will smile as that is what Helen McCrory did, she smiled, she gave, she enjoyed life to the full.

Helen McCrory a force of nature, passionate, dedicated to the arts and culture. Not only was she one of the world’s most brilliant actors, mesmerising on screen – off screen she was fearless, she was funny, she was selfless, she was a philanthropist and gave so much to so many.

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Helen McCrory Was a Star of Screen as Well as Stage

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There Was Vastly More Depth and Breadth in Her Screen Work than The Queen and Skyfall

by Lawrence Jackson | The Guardian | April 21, 2021

*Actor Helen McCrory. ‘I liked her immediately’, writes Lawrence Jackson. Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images*

In 2002, I had the luck to direct Helen McCrory (Obituary, 18 April) in a BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial of The Charterhouse of Parma. She was every bit as talented, funny, raucous and generous as everyone says, and more.

My first impression of her was when, upon arrival, she started to debate, with her fellow lead actor, the merits of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the film everyone was seeing at the time. The other performer was cool about it; Helen passionately defended it and said she loved it so much that she stayed in the cinema to watch it a second time.

I liked her immediately and thought: fantastic, she’s brought a real buzz to the production. But her appetite to consume a film twice in a row was also a reflection of her infectious attitude of wanting to make discoveries and take things further.

Memorials and obituaries so far have focused on her achievements on stage; but there was vastly more depth and breadth in her screen work than The Queen and Skyfall. In particular, I would suggest seeing her in Streetlife (Karl Francis, 1995), In a Land of Plenty (Hettie Macdonald, 2001), Charles II: The Power and the Passion (Joe Wright, 2003) and Inside No 9 (S1 E6, 2014).